Game apparatus.



PATENTED JULY 14, 1908.

l J. BOWLING. GAME APPARATUS.

APPLiOATION FILED JAN. 4, 1908.

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No. 893,303. PATENTED JULY 14,1308.

. J. A. BOWLING.

GAME APPARATUS. AEPLIUATION FILED JAN. 4, 1903.

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warm I A v 6M4? I %M&%%* MI a UNITED s'rnrns PATENT OFFICE JAMES ALBERT :BOWLING, or 'EMMITSBURG', MARYLAND.

- ems ABPARATUS.

specification of Letters Patent.. I

Patented Ju1y 14, 1908;

ma or filed January 4-, 199a; SerialNo. 409,290.

To all whom itmay concern: a v Be itknow'n that I, JAiuns. ALBERT Bow- LING," citizen of the United 'States, residing at Emmits'burg, in the'county'of Frederick and State of Maryland, have invented new and .useful Im rovements'in Game Appara- "tus, of which t e'lfollowingis a specification.

' in thepositions they assume when eye and one ofv the segmental divisions ad- ]acent to the bulls eye have been struck by a My invention pertains to game a paratus; and it has for its object to provi e a game apparatus which without being unduly exensive is calculated totest the skill 'andaford considerable amusement to both Jadults and children. '1 y Thefiinvention "be". f-ullyunderstood from the following description and'claims when the same are read in connection with the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specificat1on', in which:

' Figure- 1 is a view illustrating the target comprlsed in my novel apparatus-and also illustrating the annunciators of t e tar et' e bu "s a player or marksmanaf Fig. 2 is a" rear elevation of the ,target with the parts in the .same positions as in 1-. r Figs. 3 and 4 are vertical sections taken in the planes in:

dicated by the lines 33"and 44, respectively, of. Fig. 2, looking in the directions indicated by the arrows?v Figa5is a. detail section illustrating, the rotary annunciator member of the target and the parts cooper--- and 4.," with a recess 6 design ating therewithan elevationwf one of. the darts which I" prefer to .employ in connection with the' target-gotth ratus. I

parts in all of the views of the drawings, referring to whieh: J

A is the body ofthe target com rised 'my; improvements. The said he y is \designed to be supported in an upright o'sition' b legsa or other suitable means, an is pre-- vided in its face, as illustrated in Figs'..1,' 3 p ed to receive a; removable and reversible target disk, B;

. the said disk being. provided with a, central so Lenin'g' 0, preferably circular in form, and

t ebody' A being provided with a conesppndin opening d; Thedisk B:is.l.prefer a ly ma e remov'ableand reversible as stateiiig' in order that when one of itssides is indented;

I andotherwise marregito a considerable eX- vide' which constitutes ab sented in Fig. 1, for a purpose. w 'presentl .be ointed out;

e appa .1 M4. S milar letters designate 'cori'espondlngi other side may be ex osed'. The said disk B is erferably, thoug not essentially,pro:

d with the conventional conc'entric cir-' cles .e, and these latter. arepreferably' mum bered in regular sequence .sothat the scores;

of the players of a game maybe, determined" with facillty.

3 .111 the openings 5 and d of-the disk B and body A, respectively, is arranged and,

"tent by the darts, presently described, its;

adapted to movea target member C having t? f, and in the said opening a central openin 5 adapted to move atarge'trf arra ed an member the'outer or, forward end of.

s---eyeias shown in -Fig'-.- 1. The face of the ta vet member C is parts, and these arts are differently colored; the member G ustratedhaving red, white and blue. divisions =conventionall repre- "ch will .E is t e bu ls eye annunciator of the tar: get; which preferably comprises a head It and a stem 1' connected to and depending from the head anddisposed in a fixedguide ion the backoithe body A. At'its lower endthe stemi of the annunciator E' is pivotally connec'ted to'a lever F, preferably of wood'and possessed of resiliency or s ringiness; the. said; lever being fulcrume at k on a block 1, fixed to'the back of the body A, and being provided atm with a latch de-' signed to engage :a-keep'er' bar a, Figs. 2

and 3, and to normallygrestbackiof' a resilient barfp,preferably of wood, which bar p isponnected at its middle to the rear end of; the "bulls eye target member D, and at its ends toblocks won the back of the-body A.- The lever]: is designed to be drawndownward through the medi'um of a' handle G suitably connected with the long arm of thelever, and the said movement of the 'lever is limited by a fixed stop 3, Fig.2, so as, to assure the latch m engaging the keeper bar n themanner illustrated in Fig. 3..

A coiled spring H is connected atone end ;to' the short arm of thelever F, and at its. 0 osite endtothe. body A, and has for its 0 cc to swing thelever and raise the annunciatorE to the position. shown in Figs,

1 and'2 subsequent; tothe disengagement of the latch'm from the keeper bar a. I Arranged on the body A and the short arm of the lever F, respectively, are terminals I and J whichare arranged as shown in Fig. 2 in a'nor1nally 'open electric circuit' with a source of electric energy K and an electric bell L.

From the foregoing description it will be understood that the annunciator E and the lever F normally rest as shown in Fig. 3,

and it will also be understood that when the bulls eye target member D is struck and forced i'earwardly, the bar p will move the latch m rearwardly out of engagement with the keeper bar a, whereupon the spring H will draw the short arm of the lever F downward and raise the long arm of said lever F tio n oi the partiesplaying the game. Subsequent to the raising of the long arm of the lever F with the annunciator E, a player or attendant draws down on the handle G so as to lower the long arm of the lever F and enable the latch on to engage the keeper bar a, after the manner illustrated in Fig. 3, and it will be seen that when the lever F is thus -manipulated the terminal J will be moved away i'rom the terminal I to break the electric circuit and. stop the ringing of the bell L. It will also be observed that subsequent to the before described rearward movement of the target member D and the disengagement of the latch on from the keeper bar a, the resilient bar p wil return the target member D to its normal osition shown in Fig. 3 so as to enable the atch m to engage the keeper bar it on the subsequent lowering .oi the annunciator E.

- Connectedat their ends to the back of the body A are resilient strips M, preferably of wood, which extend across the back of the target member 0 at opposite sides oi the target member D and are connected to said member C by screws 01 other suitable means. These strips M. have-for their office to press or spring rearwardly the long arm of a resilient or springylever N, also preferably of wood, which is fulcrumed at t to the back of the body A and has its long arm connected with a handle P and its short arm connected with a spring Q. which, in .turn, is'connected to the body A.. The said lever N'is normally held against u ward movement by a beveled kee er R fixe on the back of the body A, an the long arm of the said lever is pivotally connected at w to the stem arof an annunciator S, which annunciator in addition to the stem ac comprises a rotary member T mounted on the stem 01; and arranged to cooperate strips M will a manner hereinafter with a tappet Z in the Qn the short arm of pointed out in detail.

the lever N is arranged a terminal V, and on the back of the body A is arranged a complementary terminal W. lhese terminals V and W are arranged in a normally open elec tric circuit with a source of electric energy X I and an electric bell Y.

' From the foregoing it will be understood that when any one of the divisions g of the target member C is struck, and said target member C is ressed rearward, the spring 120, be pressed rearwardly and will spring the long arm of the lever N laterally out of engagement with the beveled keeper R, whereupon the s )ring Q will operate to draw the short arm 0 the lever N down and throw the long arm of said lever, together with the annunciator S, upward. At the same time the tenminal V will contact with the terminal W so as to attract the at tention of the marksmen or players to the fact that the annunciator S is raised, indicating that a hit has beenmade on the target member C. It will also be understood from the foregoin that when the long arm of the lever N is lowered through the medium of the handle P, the said long arm wil ride over and spring under the beveled keeper R and thereby lower the annunciator S and move the terminal V away from the terminal and break the electric circuit so as to stop the ringing of the electric bell Y. At this point I desire to state that in the preferred embodiment of my invention, the bells L and Y will be pitched in different keys so as to enable the marksmen or players to tell by the sound of the bell the character of the hit made.-

An important feature of my invention resides in the rotary member T of the annunciator S in combination with the means for turning the said member T through a part of a revolution incident to the downward movement of the member. The said means comprises a tappet Z which is beveled, as shown in Fig. and is carried by a spring strip Z connected to the back of the body A. By virtue of this construction it will be seen that on downward movement of the annunciator S one oi" the arms a of the rotary member T will be engaged by the tappct Z with the result that the member T will be turned suliiciently far to place the arm. a. that is engaged by the tappet in an upright position, so that on the subsequent upward. movement of the annunciator S the mentioned arm a will appear above the body A. Because of the tappet Z being beveled as shown and described and arranged on the spring strip Z, it will be seen that on upward movement of the annunciator S, the arm a, opposed to the tappet Z will ride idly over the tap pet so that on the upward movement of the annunciator the position of the rotary member T will not be changed. The de- [seated step by step rotation of the member 'tO correspond to the col- 1o v ors of the divisions g of" the targetmember C.

of the'target that uring the time that the myself to the use of darts,inasmuch as pro- .35.

invention as do ent, is:

5'0 arranged to swing vertically on the body and ried by thebody and the other being carried and movable with the lever.-- h 2;.--];Ii1" i iIJ "T .is in the direction indicated by arrow in (Fig. 2, and the arms a" are preferably shaped and embellished to represent the bust of a In Fig. 6 of the drawings, I haveillustrated fer to use darts for the reason that they stick in the target and show where they strike, I

. scribed constitutes the best practical embodiment of my invention known to me, but it is -.obvious that in the future practice of the invention such changes or modifications may 4 circuit with a source of electric energy andan boy, and in thepreferred embodiment of my invention IprefeLtopr Tfde eiTch bfistwitlT a coat of a color different. from the colorstof the coats ofth'e other busts, andI also prefer Providing the busts of the rotary member T with coats of difi'erentcolors is advantagenus because-1t ap ears to a party in front annunciator S is depressed, the boy has changed his coat, and providing the busts ames an increased score may be made by the player striking a division of the tar et member C corresponding in ,coor to the co or of the arm or bust a that appears above the body A on upward movement of the annunciator S.

a dart embodying the construction I prefer to employ in using the tar et.- The said dart preferably comprises a ody 'b of wood, a metallic-point c and a tail or vane d.. I desire. it understood, however, that While Ipredo not desire. to be understood as confining jectiles of various kinds {may be used with the target without affecting my invention.

The construction herein illustrated and de-= be made as fairl fall within thescope of m ed inthe claims appende Having described my invention, wh t I claim and desire to secure by Lettersat- 1. In an apparatus forthe purpose described, the combination o fa body, a target member carried'byand movable with respect to the body, a resilient lever fulcrumed and also arrangedto be s rung rearward by rearward movement 0 the target member,

means for holding said lever against vertlcal "swinging movement until'the same 1s released min'als arranged inahormally open electric electric bell; one of said terminals being carscribed, the combination of abody, a target member carried by and movable with respect to the body, a second target member carried by and movable with respect to the body and s u r r ounding the first mentioned target memer, 5: nt lever fulcrumed' and arranged to swing verticaliypn the body and also arranged to be sprung rearwardly by rearward movement of t e first mentioned target mem ber, means for holding said lever against vertical swinging movement until the same is released by rearward movement of said tar,- get member, means for swinging the lever vertically on the release thereof, an annun- ,ciator connected and movable with the lever, a second resilient lever fulcrumed and arranged to swing vertically on the body and also arranged to be sprung rearwardly by rearward movement of the second mentioned target member, nians for holdin said lever against swinging movement unti the same is released by rearward movement of said target member, means for swinging the lever nunciatorconnected and movable with the lever. 4

3-. In an apparatus for the pur ose described, the combination of a body. aving a recess in its face, a target member extendlng through and movable with respect to the body, a second target member surrounding the first mentioned target member and carried by and movable with respect to the body, a reversible target disk removably arranged in the said recess of the body and surrounding the second mentioned target member and si' nals complementary to the first and 'secon mentioned target members and arran ed to be actuated on movement thereof. 4. 11 an apparatus for the purpose denunciatormovable rectilinearly on the body and having a rotary portion, and means on the body for turning said rotary portion through a part of a revolution during rectilin ear movementof the annunc'iator with re spect to the body.

5; In an apparatus for the purpose described, the combination of a body, an annunciator movable on the body and comprising a rotary member-having arms, and a tappet on the body for engaging one of said arms and turning the rotary member through a part of 'a revolution on movement of the annunciator in one direction and for permitting the rotary member to remain idle on movement of the annunciator in the opposite di .rection. I

6 In an apparatus for the purpose described the combination of a body, a target member carried by and movable with respect apparatus for ,the" purpose -de tary-member having arms each of -w 'ch is 4 scribed, the combination of a boy, an .an-

differentiated from the others in the same manner as the dlvlslons of the target member are d1fferent1ated,means on'the body for turning said rotary member through part of a revolution on movement of the annum ember 111 one duectlon, means for movmg the annuncietor arranged. to be put into action by movement of the target member, and,

means for holding the annunoiator moving means against, movement "until the same is [0 

